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REGULATION (EEC) No 4064/89 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 14/01/2003

Also available in the CELEX database Document No 303M3040

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COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 14/01/2003

SG (2002) D/228090

PUBLIC VERSION

MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

To the Notifying Parties

Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),

Subject: Case No. COMP/M.3040 ñ CapVis/Quadriga/Zellweger Uster Notification of 03/12/2002 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/891 Publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities No. C 306, 10/12/2002, page 3

1.On 03.12.2002, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 by which the undertakings CapVis, Switzerland,and Quadriga, United Kingdom, acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation joint control of the undertaking Zellweger Uster Switzerland, by way of purchase of shares and assets.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are :

-- for CapVis: is an investment company;

-- for Quadriga: is an investment fund

1OJ L 395, 30.12.1989 p. 1; corrected version OJ L 257 of 21.9.1990, p. 13, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1310/97, OJ L 180, 9.7.1997, p. 1, corrigendum in OJ L 40, 13.2.1998, p. 17.

Commission europÈenne, B-1049 Bruxelles / Europese Commissie, B-1049 Brussel - Belgium. Telephone: (32-2) 299 11 11.

- for Zellweger Uster: manufacture of electronic quality monitoring and measuring systems and equipment for textile production.

2.After examination of the notification, the Commission has concluded that the notified operation falls within the scope of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 and of paragraph 4, subparagraphs (a) and (b) of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 .

For the reasons set out in the Notice on a simplified procedure, the Commission has decided not to oppose the notified operation and to declare it compatible with the common market and with the EEA Agreement. This decision is adopted in application of Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89.

For the Commission

Mario MONTI Member of the Commission

2OJ C 217, 29.07.2000, p. 32.

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